>>300806Nazi Germany was officially socialist (National Socialists) as was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Their practices ideologies were fairly similar, but in the USSR the primary political powers were city bourgeois, industrial workers, criminals, and Jews. They were bitterly opposed to the royals, middle class, kulaks (middle class landowners), bourgeois upperclass men, and rural peasants,
The NSDAP Germany was a union of Military, middle class, industrial workers, rural peasants, and a select few rich businessmen (primarily ethnic Germans that agreed to partially nationalize). They bitterly opposed Jews, globalist businessmen (they called international hyenas), the bourgeois upper class, genetically inferior people,and anyone that wasn't ethnically Western European.
Both of them arrested, punished, or killed most of their upper class and rich bourgeois. In the USSR, select businessmen transitioned into heads of bureaus as apparatchiks and kept wealth while most businesses were nationalized, this includes middle class family owned businesses, and in NSDAP Germany they did fairly similarly, nationalizing a lot of businesses (like banking and transportation) while wildly supportive large corporations were able to stay privatized so long as they swore total fealty to the Nazi party.
They were honestly pretty similar, with Nazi Germany taking a more sensible pro-middle class approach. I don't think the middle class is bad, and small businesses are really helpful especially for the community. I think the USSR's big fault (one of the primary reasons their economy failed) was their virulently anti-middle class sentiment. It just wasn't realistic to nationalize every mom and pop shop in every city and village, and a lot of rural people became increasingly bitter and resentful when their "liberators" indiscriminately killed people that simply owned an acre or two to grow vegetables.